Blizzard should just consolidate all the low pop servers or close them altogether and move its players to medium sized servers; but no they want players to move themselves so they make money out of it.

Depends on the server. On my Vanilla through about a week ago server, my guild was #7 at 1/13 heroic. (Stop laughing, we've had attendance issues.) We just moved to a high pop (PVE, in your face gankers!) server where we're a more correct-seeming rank in the low 50s.

My realm is the #1 non-PvP realm in the US. We have an absolute ton of guilds with progression in ToT. On a Tues/Wends/Thurs night you can't type anything in trade without it being flooded by ToT Pugs and guild runs filling in missing players.

Depends on the server. On my Vanilla through about a week ago server, my guild was #7 at 1/13 heroic. (Stop laughing, we've had attendance issues.) We just moved to a high pop (PVE, in your face gankers!) server where we're a more correct-seeming rank in the low 50s.

1/13 heroic would be 2nd or 3rd on my realm.

Oh, just checked, it would be fourth. And we're about in the middle as a realm, according to that wowprogress list. People have skewed perceptions : /

Now take the few guilds you see and they all transferred off. The only guild to hit 12/12 downed Lei Shen once and couldn't anymore and then eventually quit. Now our realm has no raiding guilds. Fun times!